Eugenio Martinez launched Cubarican’s Cocina to bring the bold, comforting flavors of authentic Cuban and Puerto Rican home cooking to the Madison area.
“I just really like to prepare some delicious home-cooked meals. If you grew up Puerto Rican or Cuban, it’s what your mom or grandma made for you,” Martinez tells Madison365. “My menu is actually kind of big for a food truck, but I’m making it work. I’m going to have a lot of things that I grew up eating and I want people to be able to experience as much as they can.”
Some of the favorite foods that have started to get Cubarican’s Cocina a local following include a Cuban sandwich with plantain chips, carne guisada (Puerto Rican beef stew) over white rice, ropa vieja (Cuban shredded beef) over white rice with maduros (sweet fried plantains), pollo guisado (chicken stew) over white rice, pernil with arroz con gandules (Puerto Rican roast pork with rice with pigeon peas) and maduros, lechon, and pork chops with habichuelas (beans) over white rice…